How to Use ah in a Sentence

  • ah—so that's the way it is!
  • Ah, so that's why some rooms get left out of the reveal.
    Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 3 May 2017
  • Ah, summertime and the living is easy...or at least, that's the goal.
    Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 29 June 2017
  • That whole series — ah, there’s a world outside this one.
    New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The, the, the conservative said, ah, that’s a left wing magazine.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
  • And the concept is more fleshed out, with ooh-and-ah use cases that leverage the device’s uniqueness.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But to understand what causes the queues … ah, well, that fault lies along other lines.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • And truthfully, being out in front of the people for those six weeks was just, ah, my God, such a Calgon bath.
    Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • Sunday should be mostly sunny with ah high in the upper 60s.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Ah, yes, the evil mainstream media was again keeping the important stuff from us.
    The Hive, 28 July 2017
  • Ah, siblings—there's no better partner in crime, right?!
    Lauren Matthews, Woman's Day, 13 June 2017
  • There are good messages here, even inspiring ones (ah, a press secretary who doesn’t lie all the time).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Sure, Labradors, Chesapeakes and a few other retriever breeds get to work upland birds at other times of the year, but ducks — ah, ducks.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2021
  • The couple has been taking various strolls in the park (ah, blossoming love!).
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Everyone across all lanes begins to slow down, bunch up and creep towards...ah, a construction zone.
    Michael White, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Lawrence knew what some of the experts declared (ah-hem) after Prescott suffered his injury during the Week 1 loss against Tampa Bay.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In track pants and Kappa crop top, Vanije was appropriately sporty, rounding out the team with zig a zig ah.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 31 July 2020
  • The look is meant to embody Symone as a character, the boughetto Debor-ah — the kind of girl who gets her nails done weekly and might just have enough popped off acrylics in her apartment to make a dress.
    Amanda Mitchell, Allure, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Abigail Adams, who writes to her husband to keep his spirits up, and Martha Jefferson, who inspires her husband’s, ah, quill.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And ah yes, the foyer, where Ramona's dog Coco once took the inaugural dump of 2017's Berkshires weekend.
    Jodi Walker, EW.com, 10 July 2020
  • The film, which centers on a band of survivors trying to outlast a zombie outbreak (ah, that old chestnut!), was a rather modest affair.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
  • This ah-do-rable wall print will upgrade your bedroom 10x thanks to the quirky design and totally uplifting message.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Ah, sisterhood, that special bond that can never be broken by distance nor time.
    Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2017
  • But as a spectacle, an ironic spectacle, full of juicy chuckles, ah!
    Joe Pompeo, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But, ah, among the living: Crickets at noon and humans hooting with an owl, looking for a gopher or at the light around the Moon: Pink crust of flares like fire mountains, like sleep to rub from the Cyclops’s eye before his hot day at the forge.
    Christopher Cokinos, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • This two-part device combines a traditional spiral corkscrew with a dual-pronged ah-so cork remover.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Let passing motorists ooh and ah over this giant inflatable version of your most base, primal desires!
    Johanna Gohmann, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The different clips stitched together show the model in a pink velvet bathing suit (ah, a true sign of an L.A. winter) with frosty pink eye makeup and matching pink butterfly clips pulling her hair back from her face.
    Addison Aloian, Allure, 3 Mar. 2022
  • So, entering Year 2, Herbert is expected to be, ah, better?
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
  • Aerosmith started whatever day Steven walked in the door, says Joe Perry, his Boston accent flattening those r’s into ah’s.
    Sarah Grant, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2022

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